Melbourne has again led Australia’s population growth, largely through migration, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the 2023-24 financial year. Melbourne had the largest growth of any city, up by 142,600 people, followed by Sydney (107,500), Brisbane (72,900)…

The Trump administration’s axing of almost $US60 billion in foreign aid, ending around 10,000 individual programs, is consigning possibly hundreds of thousands of people, including untold numbers of children, to death, aid agencies and former US officials have said. From…

Twenty million Yemenis are now relying on food and other aid to survive as the conflict marks a decade of strife and destruction. The country remains in the grip of relentless suffering, with US air strikes just the latest phase…

The quiet and ageing town of Dimboola has had new life breathed into it thanks to the arrival of a former refugee with big dreams. Despite being the namesake of an iconic Australian play, Dimboola has seen its population dwindle,…

The gift of a small tractor is helping to make flourish a community garden established in regional Victoria by a group refugees. About twenty families of Burmese-Karen refugees harvest traditional and familiar foods from the garden on the outskirts of…

An Afghan refugee has written a visceral and revealing book that reveals the practical and emotional plight of his generation, whose dreams of building a modern, pluralistic nation in their homeland were destroyed by the return of the Taliban. Mohammed…

The 2025 federal budget will see continued support for refugee settlement, but the migrant intake will shrink as the government weighs global economic and geopolitical instability against an ongoing domestic cost of living crisis. Australia’s commitment to settle 20,000 refugees…

A long-term rise in the numbers of migrants, or the children of migrants, elected to the US Congress appears to have stalled, new research has found. migrants and children of immigrants now make up at least 15 per cent of…

Refugee settlement produces a net economic benefit to host economies through tax revenue, productivity boosts, the filling of skills gaps and entrepreneurialism, a new report says. The report, by the US-based NGO the International Rescue Committee, focuses on refugee settlement…

Fewer migrants arriving in Australia and a jump in people leaving the country has seen the nation’s population growth hit its lowest level in two years, according to new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. Australia’s population grew by 1.8…

Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants on global routes with at least 8,938 deaths according to data collected by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the UN’s migration agency. The 2024 toll continues a five-year upward trend…

Victoria’s Syrian community has held a peace vigil on the steps of Parliament House to call for an end to recent violence and massacres in Syria. The silent vigil was aimed at drawing attention to recent civilian massacres in parts…